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Payday for Williams

At last Mike Tyson has performed a public service. By offering himself to be battered by Danny Williams in Louisville, Kentucky, at the end of July, Tyson supplied the Brixton heavyweight with the credentials that have earned him a title fight against the World Boxing Council champion, the Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko. They are set to meet in the United States in December.

The cities mentioned to me as possible locations were New York and Los Angeles. Wherever the fight happens, it will be a welcome bonanza for Williams, a likeable warrior whose career had been punctuated by plenty of disappointments (many of them traceable to his own psychological problems) before July.

When he knocked out Tyson, I said he was burgling a derelict house. But sometimes ruins yield up treasure